Micro-Certificate: Building an AI Teaching Assistant
A short, assessed programme that ends with an assistant grounded in your own course material.
Hosted by Rohan Desai & Priya Nambiar
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80+ attending
About this event
What this session is about
Four guided evenings that take you from course PDFs to a retrieval-grounded assistant your students can actually use.
Assessment is a live review of what you built, so the certificate says you shipped something rather than that you attended.
How you earn it
A certificate that says you shipped something
Not an attendance badge. Across 4 live sessions, you build it, we review it, and the certificate records what you actually made.
- 01
Attend every session
Live and guided, with recordings if you need to catch up.
- 02
Build and submit
Apply each session to your own material, not a toy example.
- 03
Pass the live review
Walk the reviewers through it. Pass, and the certificate is yours.
Session by session
Curriculum
- 1
Evening 1
Scoping the assistant: what it must refuse to do
- 2
Evening 2
Grounding it in your material — chunking, retrieval, citations
- 3
Evening 3
Guardrails, hallucination checks and escalation to a human
- 4
Evening 4
Live review, assessment and certification
Outcomes
What you will be able to do
- A deployed assistant grounded in your own syllabus
- An evaluation set you can re-run after every change
- An assessed micro-certificate, not an attendance badge
Your hosts
Learn from practitioners
Rohan Desai
Curriculum Architect
UpperCurve
Priya Nambiar
ML Engineer
Lumen Learning Systems
Certificate
Earn a certificate of completion
Awarded after the final live review — proof that you built and shipped, not just that you attended.
UPPERCURVECERTIFICATE
OF COMPLETION
This is to certify that
Your Name
has successfully completed
Micro-Certificate: Building an AI Teaching Assistant
Micro-Certificate by UpperCurve · Nov 3 – 6, 2026
Rohan Desai
Rohan Desai
Curriculum Architect
Nov 3 – 6, 2026
Date of issue
Verify at uppercurve.in/certificates
- Unique, verifiable certificate ID
- Add it to LinkedIn in one click
- Issued within 7 days of your review
Who it is for
Built for
- Educators with course material to ground
- Learning engineers
- EdTech product teams
Topics
- #micro-certificate
- #rag
- #assessment
- #edtech
FAQ
Questions, answered
How is the certificate awarded?
Attend every session, submit the build, and pass the live review in the final session. The certificate reflects what you shipped, not attendance alone.
What if I miss a session?
Recordings are shared after each session. You can catch up, but the final live review must be attended to earn the certificate.
Is there a fee?
No. UpperCurve events are free to attend — you only need to register so we can send the joining details.
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Micro-Certificate: Building an AI Teaching Assistant · Nov 3 – 6, 2026 · 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM IST
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